Having seen every summer toilet flick possible, I avowed to my rapidly rotting brain that it was high time to get some culture, so I decided to go to Toronto's Independent Movie theatre, The Royal.
I know that movie watching is more about the film in front of your eyes than it is about its surroundings, but there is something off-putting about seeing a movie in a theatre that needs to drown its lobby in noise, video games, Burger Kings, and gumballs in order to get society through its doors. At least the Royal, an independently owned theatre with one screen and one candy counter, does not blast your brain with over stimulation so that it is too numb to absorb the offensively inane film that is about to play in front of it.
The Royal usually plays independent films but it also screens films that have been critically touted and have disappeared from multiplexes (probably because they were too smart for the masses). So if you are an aspiring film snob or just can't stand the much ado at the maxi-theatres then The Royal is worth a shot.